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Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment by Ellen Lewin 9780231103923
RRP: £88.00£67.97In April 1993, as part of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, hundreds of couples participated in "the Wedding," a symbolic commitment ceremony held in front of the Internal Revenue Service building... -
Seasons of Unrequited Love by Mickel A Paris 9780595246090
RRP: £9.49£7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595246090Author Mickel A ParisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 200g -
Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography by Oliver S. Buckton 9780807847022
RRP: £49.95£40.68Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original... -
Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place by Margaret Dickie 9780807846223
RRP: £46.95£38.30In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three preeminent women writers--Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich--investigating the ways in which each attempts to forge a poetic voice capable of... -
Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness and the Politics of Desire by Jonathan Kemp 9780692606247
RRP: £20.00£16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692606247Author Jonathan KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 127mm *... -
Tapestries of Faith: SGLBT African American Stories of Faith, Love & Family by Jeffrey King 9780615497631
RRP: £14.99£13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615497631Author Jeffrey KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Glover Lane PressPublisher Glover Lane PressWeight(grams) 268g -
The Stuff That Dreams are Made on: Jungian Interpretation of Literature by Clifton Snider 9780933029378
£19.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933029378Author Clifton SniderFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron Publications -
Sexuality and Contemporary Literature by Joel Gwynne 9781604978247
RRP: £84.99£61.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978247Author Joel GwynneFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Abdellah Taia's Queer Migrations: Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities by Denis M. Provencher 9781793644862
RRP: £97.00£89.54In this first edited collection in English on the Moroccan author, Abdellah Taia's Queer Migrations frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory,... -
Sappho Goes to Law School: Fragments in Lesbian Legal Theory by Professor Ruthann Robson 9780231105613
RRP: £28.00£21.36In Sappho Goes to Law School Ruthann Robson weaves together concepts taken from traditional legal theory, postmodernism, feminist theory, and queer theory, as well as her own personal experience in the courtroom and classroom, to take stock of the... -
Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland by Fintan Walsh 9781859184691
RRP: £35.00£28.82This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the... -
Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry by George Klawitter 9781683931034
RRP: £90.00£83.52Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry examines the important Interregnum/Restoration poet Andrew Marvell against a background of his contemporary lyric poets. His major works from the early elegies to the later political... -
Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel by Natasha Hurley 9781517900359
RRP: £22.99£19.60A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been... -
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire by Hiram Perez 9781479818655
RRP: £80.00£68.77Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Perez traces the development of... -
Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark 9781478013754
RRP: £90.00£76.75It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a... -
Queer Times, Queer Becomings by E. L. McCallum 9781438437736
RRP: £72.27£63.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438437736Author E. L. McCallumFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms by Mireille Rosello 9780823255351
RRP: £90.00£76.75What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration... -
Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries by Karen Tongson 9780814783092
£89.88What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the... -
Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction by Marilyn Schuster 9780814781333
RRP: £27.99£23.66In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream... -
(Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth A. Meese 9780814754702
RRP: £23.99£20.41What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? what motivates these writers and characterizes their work? In this work, Elizabeth Meese examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of... -
(Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth A. Meese 9780814754696
RRP: £80.00£68.37What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? what motivates these writers and characterizes their work? In this work, Elizabeth Meese examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of... -
The Angel and the Perverts by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus 9780814750803
£89.88Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference. As an adult, s/he lives a double life as... -
Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing by Renee C. Hoogland 9780814735114
RRP: £27.99£23.66Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial... -
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives by Marilyn R. Farwell 9780814726181
£89.88What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly) lesbian? Does there have to be a lesbian theme and must it be politically acceptable? Marilyn Farwell... -
Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities by Lee Wallace 9780801441219
RRP: £116.00£98.54European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a revisionist... -
Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel by Octavio R. Gonzalez 9780271087146
RRP: £33.95£29.77In this book, Octavio R. Gonzalez revisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit... -
Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory by Lynne Huffer 9780231149181
RRP: £92.00£70.58Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have... -
The Lives of Transgender People by Genny Beemyn 9780231143066
RRP: £88.00£67.57Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey--one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.--on gender... -
Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan by Beth A. Firestein 9780231137249
£79.91Becoming Visible offers cutting-edge psychological perspectives on bisexual and queer identities and the cultural and mental health issues facing bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, and questioning individuals and their partners. Essential for any... -
The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture by David Bergman 9780231130516
RRP: £30.00£22.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men by Joseph Carrier 9780231096935
£37.63A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations.Book InformationISBN 9780231096935Author Joseph CarrierFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Let's Get This Straight: A Gay- and Lesbian-Affirming Approach to Child Welfare by Gerald P. Mallon 9780231111379
£35.04The first book to approach child welfare from a gay- and lesbian-affirming perspective, Let's Get This Straight uncovers and challenges the pervasive presence of "heterocentrism" within the social work profession. It draws upon case examples... -
Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory by Linda Garber 9780231110334
£34.47"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she... -
Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment by Ellen Lewin 9780231103930
£32.68In April 1993, as part of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, hundreds of couples participated in "the Wedding," a symbolic commitment ceremony held in front of the Internal Revenue Service building... -
Bisexuality in the United States: A Social Science Reader by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 9780231102278
£45.91For years bisexuality was considered merely a transitional stage between a person's presumed heterosexuality and "true" homosexuality, or vice versa, and was thereby regarded with suspicion by the lesbian and gay community and contempt by the... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman 9780822347903
RRP: £92.00£78.42Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily... -
The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz 9781478009979
RRP: £92.00£78.42The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho... -
So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein by Jeff Solomon 9780816696796
RRP: £97.00£82.61Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and... -
Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission by Kevin Ohi 9780816694785
RRP: £23.99£20.41Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms "thwarted transmission." Such scenes, however,... -
Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission by Kevin Ohi 9780816694778
RRP: £86.00£73.40Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms "thwarted transmission." Such scenes, however,...